Question about 22:27

AhmadJoyia wrote: Pilgrimage for the Muslim as per the teachings of Prophet Mohammad, though it was already in vogue before him, but he corrected some of its pagan rituals.

TG12345 wrote: This doesn't explain how people were coming "from every quarter, near and far", "when the pilgrimage was proclaimed". The pilgrimage was proclaimed by Abraham. People did not come to him "from every quarter, near and far". They came maybe from all over Arabia. There are many more locations than just from all over Arabia.

AhmadJoyia wrote: This is another classical example of your petty lingering on the topic. No intellectual argument at all. Sometimes its really ok to take advice / guidance from fellow thinkers than foolishly pressing on an argument. Ask your mentor, Mr Ron Webb. Hopefully you will be rightly guided accordingly, here as well.

Each tafsir that is quoted says something else.

Perhaps I misunderstood the verse and it doesn't say that people came to Abraham from every location in the world, and riding on every mounted animal.

Perhaps "every location here and far" refers to every location around Mecca, and "every camel" refers to every available mount, and Abraham announced the pilgrimage to only the Arabs.

If that is the case, there is no error and I take back my assertion of a mistake in the verse.

It would however be an interesting question as to why when God appointed "the First House of Worship" for humanity, the only ones who knew about it for some 2,000 years if not more were the Arabs, but I guess that was God's choice.


Verily, the first House (of worship) appointed for mankind was that at Bakkah (Makkah), full of blessing, and a guidance for Al-'Alamin (mankind and jinn).     

http://searchtruth.com/chapter_display.php?chapter=3&translator=5#96

Nice discussing with you, take care.